Sentence examples for jigger from inspiring English sources
noun
A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 1/2 fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce.
About age 10 Kamau became seriously ill with jigger infections in his feet and one leg, and he underwent successful surgery at a newly established Church of Scotland mission.
The name is also erroneously applied to an insect better known as the chigoe, jigger, or jigger flea.
It was in the Jigger, a cosy little pub just over the wall adjoining the 17th at the Old Course, St Andrews, that the challenge was laid at the back end of March.
And the title song neatly distills the album's themes: "Ain't it strange the way we're ignorant / How we seek out bad advice / How we jigger it and figure it / Mistaking value for the price / And play games with time and love / Like a pair of rolling dice".
Then she put in a jigger of Scotch, broke an egg into the shaker, and shook.
"So during the cocktail hour I handed him a drink that was about one-half jigger Bourbon and one gallon of soda water.
As you drive under the sea to get to Dubai's Palm Islands (through an underpass – I'm not James Bond) there's a bit where they've painted thick white lines on to the road which make the wheels of your car go thunk-thunk-thunk-thunk, jigger-jigger-jigger-jigger, jiggerda-jiggerda-jiggerda-jiggerda … and then nothing.
Judging his background too banal to make a great story (he was one of three children raised in an academic family in Connecticut), the man born in 1940 in Boston and christened Samuel McGee Green would later re-jigger his ancestry and style himself Samuel Adams Green, claiming descent from a founding father and two American presidents.
Spectators hung out of every available balcony and window of the Old Course Hotel and crammed together on the wall of the Jigger Inn's beer garden.
Chubby Chandler has once again taken over the Jigger Inn, a watering hole situated on the Old Course, in which the agent of Ernie Els, Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy first found solace for the 2005 championship here.
We may not get as far as Wembley Arena but I humbly suggest we've already made a better start than Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Joe Meek and the Jimmy Jigger Jack Biscuits Bollix... er, what the Devil is it the blighters are calling themselves again?
